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How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some is here in full — 266 sentences across 54 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Sara Cone Bryant • Curated US English Learning Edition

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HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

That, after all, is the real test of one's power.

That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.

And that is the subject of this chapter, "How to tell a story."

How to tell a story: it is a short question which demands a long answer.

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Chapter V Reading 1/53

How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some is here in full — 266 sentences across 54 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/53 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

Line 2

That, after all, is the real test of one's power.

Line 3

That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.

Line 4

And that is the subject of this chapter, "How to tell a story."

Line 5

How to tell a story: it is a short question which demands a long answer.

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a

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From this reading And that is the subject of this chapter, "How to tell a story."

achieved

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act

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From this reading HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

adaptation

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after

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all

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From this reading That, after all, is the real test of one's power.

and

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answer

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are

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bugbear

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chapter

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From this reading And that is the subject of this chapter, "How to tell a story."

demands

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dreaded

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HOW

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if

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From this reading HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

is

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From this reading That, after all, is the real test of one's power.

it

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joy

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long

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necessary

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of

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one's

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power

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From this reading That, after all, is the real test of one's power.

preliminaries

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question

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real

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Selection

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short

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STORY

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subject

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TELL

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telling

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test

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That

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From this reading That, after all, is the real test of one's power.

THE

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From this reading HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

these

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From this reading HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

this

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From this reading And that is the subject of this chapter, "How to tell a story."

TO

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From this reading HOW TO TELL THE STORY Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling.

when

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From this reading That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.

which

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From this reading How to tell a story: it is a short question which demands a long answer.

Chapter 5 of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some by Sara Cone Bryant holds 266 sentences, grouped into 54 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 5 of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some contain?

Chapter 5 holds 266 sentences of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some, unabridged, divided into 54 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 5 of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some by Sara Cone Bryant exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 266 sentences, grouped into 54 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 5 of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some?

Work through the 54 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 54 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 5 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #474, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 236 minutes of reading across 567 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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